There was a time when they celebrated with dramatic success, but for years to turn almost exclusively in genre films. Why is that?
Nicholas Cage: To me, genre films are a way to deal with abstract themes, while reaching a broad audience. And the audience I have now once more important than the critics. Also, I can explore as an actor in the genre of new possibilities.
Have you already own "real" experience something supernatural?
Only this: I have ever felt like "Twilight Zone". That was in New Orleans, so I live there. But everything else would be too personal.
But hopefully you have no pact with the devil as the Ghost Rider.
Take the image of the Archangel Michael. We usually see only together with the devil, because one requires the other. Though we should not hang up on words like "hell". I prefer terms such as Jung's "shadow" - the side of the subconscious, we have to deal with us so that we get to wholeness.
Which fonts you guys know of?
"The spiritual problem of modern man" and some of his writings on dreams. I have also read analyzes of the myths young student Joseph Campbell. They have helped me in some situations, for myths are nothing but blueprints for the situations of life.
How you been helped?
This is a very personal thing, so I mention no names.But the way in which King Arthur deals with betrayal, is exemplary. He could forgive Lancelot, who had betrayed him with his wife, for he knew that he had married the wrong time. He had to deal with more important things than his marriage. And I do see parallels to my own life. Where I do not want to say that I am as great as King Arthur. I interpreted this myth in a rather Jungian sense.
The Ghost Rider is an outcast. Have you ever felt like this once?
Yes. As a teenager, I was far from popular. I used to have difficulty establishing contact to my fellow man, felt very differently than they do. About when I was examined by a doctor as a child and then completely shocked, was that I had a normal skeleton and normal organs. I was convinced that I did not come from this earth.
What has helped you to finally establish a connection to your environment?
One day I saw the movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth". David Bowie stars as an alien who breaks down in the superficiality and brutality of the society.And I realized that I did not end up like he wanted.So I decided to do something about it, so I was a film actor. In this way, I was finally able to overcome all this alienation.
But until then, your life, but his was a torment.
Luckily, I had by my father who was a professor of literature, discovered the world of fantasy for me. He had a game for me. I should imagine that I was a foreign correspondent, who lived in the world of books, reports and write about it. So I wrote "missing chapter" to "Moby Dick" or "Clockwork Orange".
And since you have a longing for the fantastic?
Definitely. I find it even hard to play realistic scenes.Extreme situations are much better to me.
But in reality you have problems with financial matters - like your tax payments.
The trivial things of everyday life are a real struggle for me. But compared to what happens in the world, it's me really well. If I feel bad, then I think of all the suffering people out there and say to myself: "I am suffering but not enough."
*pentagram* world, Nic is completely truthful about suffering -looking at the bright side of life makes the challenges in life are easier to deal with. what an inspiration, keep going Nic
